In Yichun, the capital of Yuanzhou, in the Zheng family's mansion where Zheng Gu's relatives gathered in the official Lang of the dynasty, there were also people flipping through a new booklet published in Tanzhou.

The main content of it is from Han Feizi's "Five Worms", and it is also one of the contents that need to be practiced by the new officials and generals in the Taiping regime today, which is concise and straightforward:

Those who write books and speak speak of the ways of the kings to preach righteousness and morality, and to pay attention to grooming and dress, and to decorate with clever rhetoric, so as to disturb the laws of the day, and thus shake the determination of the monarch;

Those who are vertical and horizontal, deceitful, swaggering, and deceitful with the help of foreign forces to achieve their private goals, and then abandon national interests;

Those ranger assassins, who gathered party members, flaunted their integrity, and tried to make a name for themselves, only to violate the ban of the state;

Those who evaded military service, a large number of depended on the nobles and nobles, wantonly bribes, and with the help of the request of important ministers, they escaped the toil of serving in the army;

Those industrialists and merchants, who made shoddy equipment, accumulated extravagant wealth, hoarded and sold them when they were ready, in the hope of profiteering from the peasants. These five types of people are all moths of the state.

If the monarch does not get rid of these five kinds of people who are like moths, and does not recruit upright people, then it is not surprising that even if there are ruined and fallen countries in the world, it is not surprising that the court of the land has been cut down.

And now in the arguments of the Taiping Army, the sixth beetle has been added, that is, the wealthy families, landlords and gentry;

Although they occupy land extensively, they are insatiable in annexing and plundering the property of weak and poor people. The vast number of laborers have little place to stand, the cultivators are especially starved to death, and the weavers are almost frozen to death; Even if you have to sell your sons and daughters, you can only sell yourself as a slave or run away from the famine, competing to fill in the ravine.

Therefore, only by following the banner of the Taiping Army, smashing these silverfish lying on the blood-sucking bodies of the people one by one, and the cannibalistic rules and shackles they weave and create, and reopening the story of awarding fields under the leadership of the "Taiping Tianmu System", it is possible to return to the good times in ancient times when everyone had land and work, and they could be self-sufficient in food and clothing by hard work and diligence.

"He really respects the old man of the Legalists, and advocates the strict punishment of the tyrannical Qin and the first of the law. In his bones, he still has the wisdom of the ancient military merit Tianjue. ”

The patriarch of the Zheng clan, whose face was wrinkled like a ravine, said pleadingly to Xu Dongye, another famous man who was a guest in the mansion.

"It's just that Shang Jun changed the law at the invitation of Qin Xiaogong, and from top to bottom he thought that he would build his trust, and he slaughtered the old nobles of the clan to establish his authority, so he was able to strengthen Qin's law for generations. However, this is the master of the peace thief, but he does the opposite, and uses the bottom-up demagoguery and instigation of grass people and gangsters as the precursor and momentum; Killing the powerful and powerful families thinks they are powerful, and they gather land and wealth to buy the hungry and the poor think they are attached, and what they do is the chaotic way that overturns the world... “

"Now that the state city is about to change hands, I, Zheng, as the first surname in the city, am afraid that it will be inevitable. I can only hope that under the disciple of the Legalists, he will not be cruel and arbitrary. ”

"In the difficult world over the years, although my Zheng clan can't be said to have a clear conscience, there are still some children who can be regarded as clean and have nothing to do with everything; It's to ask Mr. to take them out.,And get rid of the family.。。 ”

"Now that the family has Shouyu (Zheng Gu) heard that the dynasty is in the middle of the dynasty, the heirs of the family have to be counted on. Therefore, in the future, it doesn't matter whether the gentleman asks them to go to the curtain or the thief on the spot. In this way, at least the world will be stable again in the future, and my family will have a bloodline that can be passed on. ”

However, before he could finish speaking, someone stumbled in and cried,

"Ah Weng is not good, suddenly someone opened the door to welcome the thief army into the city, and has already controlled the entry and exit of all gates, and the crowd is coming to the family."

After half a ring,

With the exclamations and cries of breaking into the door, and the noise of angry scolding, the Yichun Zheng family, which had been rooted in Yuanzhou for more than ten generations and was known as the "small half of the city", was so wiped out in the tide of the times.

And Xu Dongye, who was brought out of the back door, couldn't help but feel a little sad and sad. However, his mood had just been reflected on his face, but he was seen by his former student, Chen Yanzhang, who was now in charge of contacting him, and couldn't help but ask:

"Sir, do you feel a little unbearable, to be honest, I was also a little unbearable and puzzled at the beginning, why some well-known Jishan families were not spared."

Then he continued to talk to himself.

"However, when I accompanied the rebels, I saw and came into contact with the starvation of the homeless people who wandered the way, the pile of children's remains abandoned in the ravines, the farmers and tenants who were shackled in torture chambers and dungeons, the slaves and maids who were wantonly killed and abandoned as pigs and dogs... I don't have any more confusion and panic. ”

"Where did the so-called family of goodness in this world come from, and where did it come from, aren't they piled up on the bones of countless gangsters and small people after they have been exhausted for generations; Do you dare to say that most of the people in this mansion are unaware of the actions of the servants below? ”

"They only pretend not to know or turn a blind eye to the evils and sufferings of this, so that they can use the anointing blood accumulated in their homes with peace of mind to maintain their daily deeds of wealth and dignity; Then he recited poems and lamented the hardships of the people's livelihood and the secret fall of the government, and after praising each other and singing and teasing the reputation, it was a family with a good conscience. ”

"Well, there is often a saying in the Taiping army that is completely innocent under the exhausting landslide, or is there any piece of earth and rock that has nothing to do with it; It is that this world can no longer tolerate these illusory houses of goodness, and continue to survive in the world of stealing and deceiving their reputation. However, there is another sentence from that adult that I deeply believe, that is: it is always better for one family to cry or even several families to cry than for thousands of families. Thousands of families crying, it's better than crying in the world... ”

"And now the most troubled thing in the world is this kind of thing that makes one family and several families cry and ten thousand families laugh; Thousands of homes, thousands of furniture crying and the world is full of joy, change the world's warp and weft of the immortal people. ”

"And the gentleman has always been clean and self-conscious, and he is happy to live in poverty, but he has not changed his original intention of education; Will you still empathize with these silverfish who have eaten the blood of the people? When they forced countless families to die and let their relatives and relatives be used safely, have you ever remembered the teachings and friendship of Mr. . ”

"Although most of today's Taiping army started from a slight cold, it is determined to practice the ancient sages' education without class', and thousands of leaders and small people have the opportunity to enlighten and enlighten. It is in need of this knowledge and ambition of Mr. to participate in the grand event... ”

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Time passed as easily as the sand between his fingers, and the river in the beginning of spring was still cold and windy, but Zhou Huai'an stood on the bow of the boat and patrolled his infantry arrayed on the riverside.

During this time, relative to the limited calm in Hunan that was busy with production and construction; Jingnan is the periphery of Shannan's full penetration; Located in Jiangdong Zhudao, it can be said that the smoke is rising everywhere.

After receiving support and surviving the initial weak period after the war, the Eastern Route Army led by Huang Chao was once again invincible along the river, plundering Raozhou, Xinzhou, Chizhou, Xuanzhou, Shezhou, Hangzhou and other fifteen states, and the number of troops grew to 200,000.

Of course, it is not at all possible to say how much water and how much real color there is in the so-called 200,000 people that have expanded in a short period of time; But no matter what, under the front of Huangchao's troops, Jiangdong, Jiangxi, and Liangzhejiang provinces south of the Great River have no bright face to block and restrict his existence.

Even Zhou Bao, who is known as one of the strongest towns in the southeast, can only reluctantly divide his troops to keep a few famous cities and cities that he takes for granted, and completely give up treatment for other places, and let them rise and fall on their own.

As for Pei Qianyu, one of the three towns in Jiangdong, he abandoned the city and absconded after the defeat of the Ning Guojun under his command; directly lost Xuanzhou to Huangchao's main array;

Even the observation of Zhedong in another town in Jiangdong made Liu Jin's command even more unbearable; At the beginning, he was appointed by the imperial court to cross the sea to clean up the local situation, and except for a few boats of rewards, there were not many soldiers who thought that they would rely on it. Even the Yisheng Army under his command is the choice of the new division that has been rebuilt in recent years.

Therefore, after losing the Huainan Army as foreign aid and echo, and under the pressure of the Huangchao army, the Yisheng Army under his command caused a dispute over uneven rewards. Then he was persuaded and told by his predecessor Cui Miao, who had already surrendered to the thief, that he had moved his old subordinates, and when he was watching the battle at the city gate to boost morale, he broke out and sent him out to open the city and surrender.

As a result, most of the rebels in the city dispersed, some of them surrendered and joined the Yellow Nest's main formation, and some of them were scattered in the countryside and became a new source of bandits and bandits. In the following period, the main battles and conflicts faced by the rebel camp took place with the local forces represented by the Tu Tu and the Suppression Army.

For example, Dong Chang, the commander of the Badu Regiment in Hangzhou, defeated several other rebel armies that plundered his territory, and instead took the opportunity to expand his territory and population in Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) and Huzhou, where the official army lost control.

During this period, there was also a deputy general named Qian Biao, who began to emerge as a local name for his bravery and good fighting. Then, as expected, Dong Chang was taboo and vigilant, and he was appointed as the commander of the navy and was responsible for escorting ships between Guangzhou.

As for the Huainan Army on the north bank of the Yangtze River, in this winter, it was as if they were blind, and they ignored the beacon fire on the other side. The only relatively clear news is that Yangzhou began to gather the guards and garrison generals from all over the country.

In fact, now that the Taiping Army is in the General's Mansion, it actually has corresponding sources and relatively stable communication channels.

The reason is very simple, although under the name of the General's Mansion, many generals of the Righteous Army have all kinds of envy, jealousy, hatred and disapproval of the strength of the Taiping Army on the surface, but in private, through the communication between their subordinates, it has never been cut off.

Especially during this period, there is an explosive growth trend. The reason is not difficult to understand, most of them have experience in warfare and plundering, but they do not have the concept and means to produce and produce.

However, the casualties of war need to be compensated and replenished, the daily army needs to be fed, and the condition of training and equipment needs to be maintained, and the generals need to maintain a high level of luxury and treatment. Not to mention the huge resource gap that has been expanded by the rebel armies of various ministries after the Shinshu War a few days ago.

Therefore, after each battle, as much as possible to realize what was gained, rather than piling up in the tent in vain, rotten and decayed, it was inevitable to deal privately with the Taiping army, which had mastered the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the areas beyond the mountains, to obtain the corresponding materials and wealth.

Although they were in a position of unanimity on the surface, most of them verbally disagreed with the lords of the Taiping army; But in private, through Cao Shixiong, Zhu Cun, Zhang Juyan, or the lower level Gao Jichang, Wang Chongba, Li Xiang and others, they all have the old origin of secretly communicating in the corresponding name; That is, Guo Yan has no one to hook up.

Therefore, when Huangchao's army swept through the southeast and was like a broken bamboo, the ships loaded with all kinds of products on the river were also like carp crossing the river, and the projects operated in them also expanded rapidly from the original basic grain and military resources to all aspects.

This is also a good thing for the Taiping army, using the empty old backlog of inventory in exchange for the looted goods and other resources in the hands of the rebel army, and it can also support and support the momentum of the rebel army in disguise, which is also a profitable and beneficial business.

So much so that even the bold generals of the rebel army began to sell the corresponding prisoners of the army and the wounded and sick of the rebels. Of course, the former is considered to be a good average level of strong labor, which can be used to take on some dangerous and heavy labor, and the latter is an add-on to the buy-one-get-one-free combination.

Because for some rebel generals, except for a few elite and Qin soldiers from relatives, most of the wounded and sick are a drag and burden in a sense. But for the sake of the overall morale, they can't be discarded casually; Therefore, once the Taiping Army provided the corresponding solution, they couldn't wait to secretly arrange it under various banners and excuses.

At least for them, with the money and food saved, they can recruit more Ding Zhuang who can't eat to work hard for themselves. Although some people feel that this is the wrong way to go, they cannot resist the overall momentum of rapid results brought about by immediate benefits.

Therefore, as the core secrets headed by the middle and high-level leaders of the General's Mansion, although it is not so easy to find out, all kinds of news from the middle and lower levels of the military government and peripheral departments are quite true. Even the news from the Eight Sons of the Yellow Gate, or the subordinates of Li Junru and the others of the Left Army;

Even if there are people who hate the virtual monks who act and style differently from ordinary people, and the Taiping forces they represent, basically no one will hate the goods obtained from the Taiping army; In other words, the benefits and benefits obtained directly or indirectly under various names and relationships are enough to be selectively ignored.

Therefore, after nearly half a month of preparation, the transition and buffer of collecting and probing information exchanges. Zhou Huai'an, who publicly refused to come to the General's Mansion to appoint and reward, decided to go to Jiangzhou to meet with the co-leader of the world's righteous army for a while; It is also a plan to seek an alliance to determine the future sphere of influence and business direction.

Of course, this time it must be with a sufficient number of troops to participate in the alliance, which is also a corresponding means of arming and declaring strength. Although they were invited, there were also other rebel forces that were already self-reliant at the local level; But in fact, the camp pattern is still dominated by the Taiping Army and the Huangchao's main formation.

This can also show the ever-changing muscles of the Taiping Army, which can also avoid more friction and conflict in the rebel camp in the future; and even some unwarranted malice and trouble from the shadows. It's one thing to attract envy, but it's another thing to make the other person feel that the gains outweigh the losses.

(End of chapter)